Re: [zfs-discuss] Layout for multiple large streaming writes.

2007-03-11 Thread przemolicc
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:08:22AM +0100, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Carisdad, > > Friday, March 9, 2007, 7:05:02 PM, you wrote: > > C> I have a setup with a T2000 SAN attached to 90 500GB SATA drives > C> presented as individual luns to the host. We will be sending mostly > C> large stre

Re: [zfs-discuss] writes lost with zfs !

2007-03-11 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Ayaz, What does the panic stack look like ? Did you have DPM (Disk Path Monitoring) enabled in both the cases (UFS/ZFS) ? Also, from what I have seen pulling the FC cable (or similar fault) to simulate disk fault has caused ZFS to hang or panic. I don't think such a test is the right way t

Re: [zfs-discuss] writes lost with zfs !

2007-03-11 Thread Erblichs
Ayaz Anjum and others, I think once you move into NFS over TCP in a client server env, the chance for lost data is significantly higher than just a disconnecting a cable, Scenario, before a client generates a delayed write from his violatile DRAM client cac

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS stalling problem

2007-03-11 Thread Selim Daoud
I observed better predictable thoughput if I use a IO generator that can do throttling (xdd or vdbench) s. On 3/11/07, Jesse DeFer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, I tried it with txg_time set to 1 and am seeing less predictable results. The first time I ran the test it completed in 27 seconds

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] writes lost with zfs !

2007-03-11 Thread Toby Thain
On 11-Mar-07, at 11:22 PM, Stuart Low wrote: Heya, I believe Robert and Darren have offered sufficient explanations: You cannot be assured of committed data unless you've sync'd it. You are only risking data loss if your users and/or applications assume data is committed without seeing a comp

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] writes lost with zfs !

2007-03-11 Thread Stuart Low
Heya, > I believe Robert and Darren have offered sufficient explanations: You > cannot be assured of committed data unless you've sync'd it. You are > only risking data loss if your users and/or applications assume data > is committed without seeing a completed sync, which would be a design > erro

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] writes lost with zfs !

2007-03-11 Thread Toby Thain
On 11-Mar-07, at 11:12 PM, Ayaz Anjum wrote: HI ! Well as per my actual post, i created a zfs file as part of Sun cluster HAStoragePlus, and then disconned the FC cable, since there was no active IO hence the failure of disk was not detected, then i touched a file in the zfs filesystem,

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] writes lost with zfs !

2007-03-11 Thread Ayaz Anjum
HI ! Well as per my actual post, i created a zfs file as part of Sun cluster HAStoragePlus, and then disconned the FC cable, since there was no active IO hence the failure of disk was not detected, then i touched a file in the zfs filesystem, and it went fine, only after that when i did sync th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Darren Dunham
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 11:21:13AM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > > On March 11, 2007 6:05:13 PM + Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >* ability to add disks to mirror the root filesystem at any time, > > > should they become available > > > > Can't this be done with UFS+SVM as well?

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] writes lost with zfs !

2007-03-11 Thread Darren Dunham
> I have some concerns here, from my experience in the past, touching a > file ( doing some IO ) will cause the ufs filesystem to failover, unlike > zfs where it did not ! Why the behaviour of zfs different than ufs ? UFS always does synchronous metadata updates. So a 'touch' that creates a fi

RE: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Ellis, Mike
While the snapshot isn't RW, the clone is and would certainly be helpful in this case Isn't the whole idea to: 0) boot into single-user/boot-archive if you're paranoid (or just quiess and clone if you feel lucky) 1) "clone" the primary OS instance+relevant-slices & boot into the primary OS 2)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Lin Ling
Matty wrote: How will /boot/grub/menu.lst be updated? Will the admin have to run bootadm after the root clone is created, or will the zfs utility be enhanced to populate / remove entries from the menu.lst? The detail of how menu.lst will be updated is still being worked out. We don't plan on u

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS stalling problem

2007-03-11 Thread Jesse DeFer
OK, I tried it with txg_time set to 1 and am seeing less predictable results. The first time I ran the test it completed in 27 seconds (vs 24s for ufs or 42s with txg_time=5). Further tests ran from 27s to 43s, about half the time greater than 40s. zpool iostat doesn't show the large no-write

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Matty
On 3/11/07, Lin Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matty wrote: > I am curious how snapshots and clones will be integrated with grub. > Will it be posible to boot from a snapshot? I think this would be > useful when applying patches, since you could snapshot / ,/var and > /opt, patch the system, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Lin Ling
Matty wrote: I am curious how snapshots and clones will be integrated with grub. Will it be posible to boot from a snapshot? I think this would be useful when applying patches, since you could snapshot / ,/var and /opt, patch the system, and revert back (by choosing a snapshot from the grub menu)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Dennis Clarke
> Robert Milkowski wrote: >> Hello Ivan, >> Sunday, March 11, 2007, 12:01:28 PM, you wrote: >> >> IW> Got it, thanks, and a more general question, in a single disk >> IW> root pool scenario, what advantage zfs will provide over ufs w/ >> IW> logging? And when zfs boot integrated in neveda, will l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 11:21:13AM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > On March 11, 2007 6:05:13 PM + Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* ability to add disks to mirror the root filesystem at any time, > > should they become available > > Can't this be done with UFS+SVM as well? A reboot wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 11, 2007 6:05:13 PM + Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * ability to add disks to mirror the root filesystem at any time, should they become available Can't this be done with UFS+SVM as well? A reboot would be required but you have to do regular reboots anyway just for patc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Tim Foster
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Ivan, Sunday, March 11, 2007, 12:01:28 PM, you wrote: IW> Got it, thanks, and a more general question, in a single disk IW> root pool scenario, what advantage zfs will provide over ufs w/ IW> logging? And when zfs boot integrated in neveda, will live upgrade work

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Matty
On 3/11/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IW> Got it, thanks, and a more general question, in a single disk IW> root pool scenario, what advantage zfs will provide over ufs w/ IW> logging? And when zfs boot integrated in neveda, will live upgrade work with zfs > root? Snapshots/c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Ivan, Sunday, March 11, 2007, 12:01:28 PM, you wrote: IW> Got it, thanks, and a more general question, in a single disk IW> root pool scenario, what advantage zfs will provide over ufs w/ IW> logging? And when zfs boot integrated in neveda, will live upgrade work with zfs root? Snapshots

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] writes lost with zfs !

2007-03-11 Thread Ayaz Anjum
HI ! I have some concerns here, from my experience in the past, touching a file ( doing some IO ) will cause the ufs filesystem to failover, unlike zfs where it did not ! Why the behaviour of zfs different than ufs ? is not this compromising data integrity ? thanks Ayaz From: Robert M

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: update on zfs boot support

2007-03-11 Thread Ivan Wang
> > Ivan Wang wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > However, this raises another concert that during > recent discussions regarding to disk layout of a zfs > system > (http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID= > 25679&tstart=0) it was said that currently we'd > better give zfs the whole device (